2 Lenin refers to a quotation from his pamphlet "The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky":
"Having completed the bourgeois-democratic revolution together with the peasantry as a whole, the proletariat of Russia proceeded definitively to the socialist revolution when it succeeded in splitting the village, drawing to itself its proletarians and semi-proletarians, uniting them against the kulaks and the bourgeoisie, including the peasant bourgeoisie" (ed. "Kommunist," 1918, p. 102; see Works, vol. XXIII, p. 394).
3 See p. 49 of the present collection.
4 The second plan of the speech on the replacement of requisitioning with a tax was written by Lenin in early March 1921, when the situation in Kronstadt had already become clarified. This is evidenced by the end of the first point, in which the expression "such a counter-revolution already stands against us" is particularly emphasized in colored pencil.
5 Lenin has in mind the decree of the Council of Labor and Defense of February 28, 1921, allocating 10 million gold rubles for the purchase abroad of consumer goods and food for workers (see pp. 15 and 47 of the present collection). The resolution on improving the situation of workers, written by Lenin on March 11, 1921, was adopted by the Tenth Congress of the RCP(b).
6 By March 1921, the following decrees and instructions on the natural tax had been published: 1) the law on the natural tax of October 30, 1918, 2) and 3) instructions of November 12 and December 23, 1918, 4) decree of January 11, 1919, 5) deferment of the tax law of March 8, 1919, 6) on privileges in the collection of the natural tax of April 26, 1919, 7) on privileges in the taxation of rural proprietors with the natural tax, October 15, 1919. The Institute possesses a memorandum from the People's Commissariat of Justice dated March 8, in response to an inquiry from the Council of People's Commissars of March 7, in which all the decrees and instructions on the natural tax published by 1921 were listed, except for the decree of January 11, 1919. For more detail on the history of the tax decree, see Works, vol. XXVI, pp. 651–653, note 111.
7 For the Tenth Congress of the Party, on the basis of materials from the Central Statistical Administration, a statistical memorandum on the question of the tax and requisitioning was compiled by P. Popov with the heading: "Grain Production of the Soviet and Allied Republics." Lenin cited it in his report.